1. Engaging Government
for Fun, Profit, and Meaning
Using government data and tools
to join exciting, meaningful projects,
start or grow your business,
and make better daily decisions

2. Join Exciting, Meaningful Projects

3. Start or Grow Your Business
Compete in a challenge
Develop an app or site based on
government data
Request new datasets to build new
tools or expand existing ones

4. Make Better Daily Decisions

5. Participants and Moderator
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Want to build a tool that helps people with their finances? The CFPB is currently developing the standards
that financial institutions and products will use.
General Services Administration (GSA)
Want to solve a problem and get paid for it? Through Challenge.gov, GSA offers companies big and small
an opportunity to compete for chase prizes that answer a social, environmental, technological, or other
need.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Want to join a project to identify people in old photographs? How about helping tag Census data from the
40s? Having launched the Citizen Archivist Dashboard, NARA allows citizens to take part in the project of
identifying and preserving online historical artifacts
US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Want to track your diet? How about building a tool that helps others make better food choices? The
USDA runs SuperTracker, a tool that helps people keep track of their diet. They also have a nutritional
database with thousands of food items.
Moderator: Gadi Ben-Yehuda,
Innovation and Social Media Director
IBM Center for the Business of Government